In a bouquet of flowers, there are 7 daisies and 17 roses. How do you write the ratio of daisies to roses in three different ways?

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In a bouquet of flowers, there are 7 daisies and 17 roses. How do you write the ratio of daisies to roses in three different ways?

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Answer 1 · 2015-08-26T22:01:32

$7 to 17$ $"7 to 17"$ , $7 : 17$ $7:17$ , and $\frac{7}{17}$ $7/17$

Explanation:

A ratio is simply a way of comparing two quantities. In essence, a ratio between two numbers will tell you how much bigger one of the numbers is compared with the other.

For two numbers $a$ $a$ and $b$ $b$ , you can write the ratio of $a$ $a$ to $b$ $b$ in three ways

using the word to

This one is pretty straightforward; to write the ratio of $a$ $a$ to $b$ $b$ you can simply write

$a to b$ $a " to " b$

using the colon punctuation mark instead of to

You can write the ratio between $a$ $a$ and $b$ $b$ by using the colon punctuation mark, $:$ $:$

$a : b$ $a : b$

using a fraction

You can also write the ratio between $a$ $a$ and $b$ $b$ as a fraction, with $a$ $a$ , as the numerator and $b$ $b$ as the denominator

$\frac{a}{b}$ $a/b$

So, your bouquet of flowers contains 7 daisies and 17 roses. You can thus write the ratio of daisies to roses like this

$daisies to roses \to 7 to 17$ $"daisies to roses"-> color(green)("7 to 17")$

$daisies to roses \to 7 : 17$ $"daisies to roses"-> color(green)(7:17)$

$daisies to roses \to \frac{7}{17}$ $"daisies to roses" -> color(green)(7/17)$

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In a bouquet of flowers, there are 7 daisies and 17 roses. How do you write the ratio of daisies to roses in three different ways?

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